Manuel Brito (Venezuela) began to paint after he began working as an assistant in the art workshop of the master Armando Villalón in 1987. Surrounded by a creative environment, his interest in painting was born. The master Villalón notices his talent and introduces him to art under his direction. Even today they share a workshop.

The first steps of Manuel Brito were guided towards the understanding and practice of formal elements, “how a drawing is made, how it is composed, how an atmosphere is formed”.

Landscape is the genre that he has cultivated throughout his career. In search of an avant-garde identity in his language, he adds to the natural landscape, architectural scenarios in the foreground, with polished surfaces that generate optical effects that slightly displace the logical order of the composition. As part of his childhood memories, he places metras, paper boats, bicycles and nutcrackers, as a way to pay tribute to a time that has been bypassed by technology. Although it is a figurative language, the way the elements are arranged brings this work closer to a surreal sense.

His series named Infantino is one of the best known of his work and it is a faithful example of these searches. The view of the scene is usually located from an architectural space, which is followed by a segmented wall, which separates the city and the mountain or the sea with the third plane. Light is an important resource in the language of Brito, to highlight the volumes and luminosity of colors.

Anny Bello